{"product_id":"what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-rape-by-sohaila-abdulali","title":"What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit from reading.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Jill Soloway\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest-and ultimately hopeful-examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women's magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi, prompting her to write a \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e op-ed about healing from rape that was widely circulated.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Now, Abdulali has written \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e—a thoughtful, generous, unflinching look at rape and rape culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why—and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews with survivors from around the world we hear moving personal accounts of hard-earned strength, humor, and wisdom that collectively tell the larger story of what rape means and how healing can occur. Abdulali also points to the questions we don't talk about: Is rape always a life-definining event? Is one rape worse than another? Is a world without rape possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for this #MeToo and #TimesUp age that will stay with readers—men and women alike—for a long, long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winding Stair Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46954693689692,"sku":"","price":11.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/0691\/0035\/files\/whenwetalkaboutrape.jpg?v=1691066368","url":"https:\/\/winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-rape-by-sohaila-abdulali","provider":"Winding Stair Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}